In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple"
53A IPC Construction of reference to transportation
54 IPC Commutation of sentence of death
55 IPC Commutation of sentence of imprisonment for life
55A IPC Definition of appropriate Government
57 IPC Fractions of terms of punishment
60 IPC Sentence may be in certain cases of imprisonment wholly or partly rigorous or simple